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Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert ...

Architecture From the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert ...

Robert Gutman

Marta Gutman Starting in the 19705, Robert Gutman argued that the substitution of criticism for advocacy narrowed architectural design, leading architects to see politics and economy as impediments rather than as inspirations for ...
Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Israel Gutman

The book addresses the history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about ...
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Israel Gutman

Note: Some of the photos and maps contained in the print edition of this book have been excluded from the e-book edition due to permissions issues.
A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable ...

A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable ...

Marta Gutman

But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity.
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times

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Tamar Katriel and Yifat Gutman Introduction The violent conflict over the Occupied Palestinian Territories has gripped world attention for decades. In recent years, the daunting image of the Separation Barrier [hence, the Wall] built by Israel, ...
People and Buildings

People and Buildings

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Robert Gutman. social architecture and a genuine architectural sociology? These are the questions that architects and sociologists should ask. Reprinted from Robert Gutman, “The Questions Architects Ask,” Transactions of the Bartlett Society, ...
The Holocaust and Its Significance

The Holocaust and Its Significance

Israel Gutman

A textbook style approach to the events of the Holocaust beginning with the major events occuring in Europe between the two world wars. examines the difference between traditional anti-Semitism and racial anti-Semitism.
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York ...

Peter Eisenstadt

Caro's charges that he refused to heat the pools in white neighborhoods to keep blacks away have been effectively countered by Marta Gutman. See Marta Gutman, “Equipping the Public Realm: Rethinking Robert Moses and Recreation, ” and ...
Why Israel Can't Wait: The Coming War Between Israel and Iran

Why Israel Can't Wait: The Coming War Between Israel and Iran

Jerome R. Corsi

Looks at the impact the Iranian nuclear weapons program has on relations with both Israel and the United States.
Israel and the Bomb

Israel and the Bomb

Avner Cohen

He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israel's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology it needed, to the ...
Combattants juifs dans l'armée républicaine espagnole, 1936-1939

Combattants juifs dans l'armée républicaine espagnole, 1936-1939

David Diamant

Litvak Levi. Lotringuer Kuba (Espagne). Lubelski Bolek, Israël. Lurië Yakob, Israël. Matsner Ferdinand. Margoliss Abrasha. Dr. Mayerowitch Anita, Israël. Meiller Emanuel. Meiller Janina, Israël. Meltiss Ruth, France. Milband Muniêh ( Espagne).
Israel: The Dynamics of Change and Continuity

Israel: The Dynamics of Change and Continuity

David Levi-Faur

The essays here attempt to move beyond the question of Israel's uniqueness to examine the pace and direction of change of Israel's political, social and economic institutions.
Das vergessene Königreich: Israel und die verborgenen ...

Das vergessene Königreich: Israel und die verborgenen ...

Israel Finkelstein

Das hat dazu geführt, dass man vom Königreich Israel über die biblische Sicht hinaus wenig weiß. Israel Finkelstein rekonstruiert auf der Grundlage von jahrzehntelangen Ausgrabungen erstmals dessen wahre Geschichte.
Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning: First ...

Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning: First ...

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Committee. Ran Achituv Yehuda Afek Adi Akavia Amir Averbuch Roberto Baldoni Michael Ben-Or Anat Bremler-Barr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye Itai Dinur Shlomi Dolev (Co-chair) DELLEMC, Israel Ben-Gurion University, Israel Ben-Gurion University, Israel Ben-Gurion University, Israel University of Maryland, USA UCLA , USA Stanford University, USA MIT, USA IBM, Israel Columbia University and Snapchat, USA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tata Consultancy Services, ...
The Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Egypt, Israel and ...

The Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Egypt, Israel and ...

Michael B. Oren

This book represents the first scholarly examination of the origins of the 1956 Sinai campaign between Egypt and Israel.
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Jihan El-Tahri

ISRAEL AND THE ARABS Ahron Bregman was born in Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and worked for three yearsas a parliamentary assistant at the Knesset. He holdsa Ph.D.from the Department ofWar Studies, King's ...
Israel: An Introduction

Israel: An Introduction

Barry Rubin

This comprehensive book provides a well-rounded introduction to Israel--a definitive account of the nation's past, its often controversial present, and much more. Written by a leading historian of the Middle East, "Israel" is organized a
Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V

Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg

He is the author and editor of several works, including Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977—1983 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987), The Emergence of Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making, co-edited with Ofira Seliktar (Boulder, CO: ...
The Case for Israel

The Case for Israel

Alan Dershowitz

. A profound contribution to a country now in dire straits." –Jerusalem Post In this impassioned book, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz responds to Israel’s vociferous opponents–and explains why Israel, while not perfect, ...
The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a ...

The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a ...

George F. Gilder

In this book, George Gilder claims that the reason there is such hatred and crticism of the current state of Israel is because these critics are envious of Israel’s sudden rise as a world power.
Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within

Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within

Ilan Peleg

Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in ...
Israel

Israel

Martin Hintz

Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, and language of Israel.
Israel Yearbook on Human Rights

Israel Yearbook on Human Rights

Yoram Dinstein

The "Israel Yearbook on Human Rights- an annual published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University since 1971- is devoted to publishing studies by distinguished scholars in Israel and other countries on human rights ...
Israel

Israel

Emma Young

Discusses the history, landscape, people, animals, food, sports, and culture of Israel.
The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under ...

The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under ...

Howard Grief

"The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law" offers a comprehensive and systematic legal treatment of Jewish national and political rights to all of the Land of Israel.

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